Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Liz to lead rubbish session at this week's Area Assembly
Allons enfants de Harringay,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
This week's Area Assembly is the first under its new chair, Cllr Zena Brabazon.
Zena wants more resident involvement so she's handing the floor over to the residents.
Liz has been asked to have first bash and is leading a session on rubbish issues.
Surely it's worth coming just for that. It's just down the road on Green Lanes - full details here.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I live in a block of 8 purpose-built flats and we have three black bins for non-recyclable waste - less than half a bin per household. That was quite adequate with weekly collections but manifestly it isn't now. ( We also have a huge container for recyclable waste and it's well-used.)
Was I dreaming it, or did the initial information not say that there would be no change for flats and they would continue to collect non-recyclable waste weekly ?
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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That sounds awful. Now you come to mention it I also think it said something about it but maybe they meant larger estates. The leaflet has long since been recycled. If they collected normal rubbish every week from every house with more than one doorbell then that would be fantastic.
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Liz, nice article covering your meeting in the Hornsey Journal today.
I still maintain that in an area with high density housing and many HMOs there is simply not going to be a 100% uptake on the recycling. If people have no engagement in their local community then they wont bother. I think of myself when I first arrived here. N8 was just where my home and bed happened to be but I had not local engagement instead socialising with colleagues and friends across London. It only really changed after I had a child and started meeting local people.
In Denmark you get one bin emptied per week (and it is half the size of our wheelie bins), if you want more you have to purchase special bags which ensure that you are paying for your additional refuse removal. This means that people return bottles to get their deposits back and take other stuff to the recycling centre, and there is consumer pressure for less packaging. The bins wouldn't work here as many would simply dump but it just proves that there are lots of possible solutions, but I dont think Haringey council has given it proper thought. This is a cost saving exercise thinly hidden behind the argument that they want us to be greener. I cannot see it saving much money though as the collections must take a lot longer. I have seen the guys struggling, moving bins around in tiny front garden trying to get to the ones which should be emptied on that particular day.
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